[Footnote 383: _Journal_, Vol. I, pp. 212-13; _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p.
13.]

[Footnote 384: See _Familiar Letters_, Vol. II, p. 309; _Lockhart_,
Vol. I, p. 216; Vol. IV, pp. 128 and 498; Vol. V, pp. 128, 412, 448.]

[Footnote 385: _Correspondence of C.K. Sharpe_, Vol. I, p. 352.]

[Footnote 386: _Journal_, Vol. II, p. 276. In the _Edinburgh Annual
Register_ for 1808 (published 1810) is an article on the _Living Poets
of Great Britain_, which if not written by Scott was evidently
influenced by him. Speaking of Southey, Campbell and Scott, the writer
says: "Were we set to classify their respective admirers we should be
apt to say that those who feel poetry most enthusiastically prefer
Southey; those who try it by the most severe rules admire Campbell;
while the general mass of readers prefer to either the Border Poet. In
this arrangement we should do Mr. Scott no injustice, because we
assign to him in the number of suffrages what we deny him in their
value." He once wrote to Miss Baillie, "No one can both eat his cake
and have his cake, and I have enjoyed too extensive popularity in this
generation to be entitled to draw long-dated bills upon the applause
of the next." (_Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 173.) But in the
Introductory Epistle to _Nigel_ he said, "It has often happened that
those who have been best received in their own time have also
continued to be acceptable to posterity. I do not think so ill of the
present generation as to suppose that its present favour necessarily
infers future condemnation."]

[Footnote 387: Introduction to the _Lady of the Lake_; _Lockhart_,
Vol. II, p. 130.]

[Footnote 388: Introduction to _Chronicles of the Canongate_.]

[Footnote 389: _Journal_, Vol. II, p 473.]

[Footnote 390: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 355.]

[Footnote 391: _Ibid._, Vol. V, p. 164.]

[Footnote 392: See speech of Humphry Gubbin, in _The Tender Husband_,
Act I, Sc. 2.]

[Footnote 393: _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, p 297; see also _Familiar
Letters_, Vol. I, p. 55.]

[Footnote 394: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, pp. 104 and 124.]

[Footnote 395: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 222; _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 18.]

[Footnote 396: _Lockhart_, Vol. III, p. 350.]

[Footnote 397: _Ibid._, Vol. II, p. 508.]

[Footnote 398: _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, p. 229.]

[Footnote 399: When Constable was proposing to publish the poetry of
the novels separately, Scott wrote to